The text of the original vellum leaf on view is the end of Chapter 41 and the beginning of Chapter 42 of the Book of Isaiah of the Old Testament. An abbreviation of Isaiah's name occurs at the top of the page (not visible).

A page with the last chapter of Timothy I and the first two chapters of Timothy II is shown. The name Timothy, written in Latin as Thimothea, followed by the Roman numeral II, appears at the top of the page.

Leaf of incunabula. From Justinianus, Codex de Tortis, printed in black and red, initials in blue supplied by hand. Printed at Venice, 1496, by Baptista de Tortis, one of the most skillful printers of the fifteenth century.

The leaf on display is an original page from a small Breviary, a type of book used for personal devotions. We know the name of the scribe (Bartholomew) and precise day on which the manuscript was completed (December 22) from an inscription on which...

Leaf from a manuscript Antiphonary written on vellum in black and red in a fine, gothic hand. The musical notation consists of square notes on a four line stave. The manuscript is probably of late 15th century French origin. In the early 15th...

This large leaf comes from a Bible produced by monks of the famous Winchester School of illumination. The Latin text, which derives from the Book of Ecclesiastes of the Old Testament, is arranged in two vertical columns, written in brown ink.

Leaf on vellum, from a 14th century manuscript of the "Sentences" of Peter Lombard. Peter Lombard compiled his "Sentences" from the works of the Fathers of the Church about 200 years before this manuscript was written on tissue-thin uterine vellum...